“Heart-wrenching.” “Catastrophic.” “Scary as all get-out.”
Those were the words experts used on Monday as they weighed in on the severity of the first post-pandemic results of the main Nation’s Report Card...
The results, from what is known as the nation’s report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic’s devastating impact on students.
Like a majority of states, Michigan saw student test scores plummet for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and math between 2019 and 2022, according to national test results released on Monday.
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
Reading can change lives. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. … When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror,” says Rudine Sims Bishop, a former professor at Ohio State University.
The trio of third graders at Tennessee’s Trousdale County Elementary School begin working on their multiplication tables as soon as they sit down for tutoring, quietly penciling in answers. Kelsey Harris, their math tutor, reminds them that this year they will need to know how to multiply all the numbers from zero to 10.
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Everywhere in our economy, there are shortages – in skills, workers and opportunities. Employers say they can’t find the workers they need. And yet, tens of millions of workers are stuck in low-wage, low-growth jobs, with limited economic potential and little opportunity to pursue the American dream.
Some say the only answer is more robots, self-serve kiosks and other technology to replace the workers employers say they can’t find.
As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers. “For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.”
Beyond Basics responded to Jill Barshay's work at The Hechinger Report as she highlighted the relationship between high-dosage tutoring, attendance and success. Cofounder and CEO Pamela Good's Letter to the Editor is shared in full below.
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